{"id":158732,"date":"2023-02-22T08:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-witness-the-tipping-point-of-alzheimers-in-the-lab-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2023-02-22T08:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:24:31","slug":"scientists-witness-the-tipping-point-of-alzheimers-in-the-lab-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-witness-the-tipping-point-of-alzheimers-in-the-lab-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Witness The \u2018Tipping Point\u2019 of Alzheimer\u2019s in The Lab For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-witness-the-tipping-point-of-alzheimers-in-the-lab-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified the exact point at which healthy brain proteins are shocked into the tangled mess that is commonly associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) are h opeful that the new laboratory technique behind the discovery can be used to directly study the \u2018never-before-seen\u2019 early stages of many neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tau_protein\">Tau proteins<\/a> are abundant in the human brain. At first, these proteins look like tiny pieces of string inside neurons. As they fold and bind together with structural elements called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microtubule\">microtubules<\/a>, however, they create a sort of skeleton for brain cells that helps them function properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified the exact point at which healthy brain proteins are shocked into the tangled mess that is commonly associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) are h opeful that the new laboratory technique behind the discovery can be used to directly study the \u2018never-before-seen\u2019 early stages of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}